2021
Student Seminar: Huanlin Zhou
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 304
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
HUANLIN ZHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Testing for Interaction in a GWAS Context”
Data Science Institute Distinguished Speaker Series: Gari Clifford
3:00–4:00 pm JCL 390 and via Zoom
John Crerar Library Building, room 390, and via Zoom or YouTube.
GARI CLIFFORD, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) at Emory.
“TBA”
Student Seminar: Yi Wei
2:00–3:00 pm Jones 226
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
YI WEI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“A New Modeling Framework for Multi-trait Mapping of Binary and Quantitative Phenotypes”
Student Seminar: Wanrong Zhu
3:00–4:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
WANRONG ZHU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Two Problems in Statistical Learning and Inference”
Statistics Colloquium: Jason Klusowski
4:30–5:30 pm Via Zoom
JASON KLUSOWSKI, Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University
“Consistency of Decision Trees for High Dimensional Data”
Statistics Colloquium: Xiang Zhou
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
XIANG ZHOU, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
“Statistical Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics”
Winter Quarter Graduate Registration
Through November 19, 2021
Begins November 15 through NOON November 19, 2021.
Student Seminar: Victor Kang
4:00–4:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
VICTOR KANG, Department of Statistics
“A Critical Review of the Convolution Operator in Graph Convolutional Networks”
Student Seminar: Yanbing Yi
2:30–3:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YANBING YI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Empirical Analysis of Banded Vegetation Patterns in Africa—A Comparison Between Spectral Analysis and Contour Analysis”
Student Seminar: Linyun Ni
1:30–2:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
LINYUN NI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Methods to Detect Cheating in Bridge”